Federal contract obligations to Amazon and Blue Origin, fiscal years 2024–2026

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This page covers Amazon and Blue Origin, both founded by Jeff Bezos.

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Of those obligations, $261.9 million (6.9 percent) was coded by the awarding agencies as not competed: $256.1 million of Amazon's (20 percent) and $5.8 million of Blue Origin's (0.2 percent).^[1]

Blue Origin's largest award in the period, NASA's Human Landing System contract (80MSFC23CA014), was transferred by NASA in a December 2025 novation from Blue Origin Washington, LLC to Blue Origin Manufacturing, LLC. The $1.26 billion obligated before the transfer is counted above; the $505.1 million obligated after it, recorded under Blue Origin Manufacturing, is not, because USAspending does not link Blue Origin Manufacturing to another Blue Origin entity by parent UEI and Blue Origin files no SEC subsidiary list.^[2]

NASA ($2.15 billion) and the Defense Department ($1.30 billion) were the largest buyers.^[1]

Agencies also obligated $10,500 on Amazon and Blue Origin indefinite-delivery contracts and a net $2.0 million in assistance awards to Blue Origin over the same period.^[1]

Honeybee Robotics (three UEIs), which USAspending lists under a parent other than Blue Origin, received $52.0 million in contract and $8.6 million in assistance obligations over the same period; it is not counted in the Blue Origin figures.^[3]

For Kuiper, Zoox, Twitch, Audible, One Medical, Whole Foods Market, Annapurna, Amazon Data Services, Amazon Technologies and Amazon.com Sales, none found in USAspending prime-award transactions, matched by UEI where one exists and by name search otherwise, as of 20 Oct 2026.^[4]

-- Totals by award type and fiscal year (the view this page reads)
select award_category, fiscal_year,
       sum(net_obligations)         as net_obligations,
       sum(noncompeted_obligations) as coded_not_competed
from subject_money_summary
where subject_group = 'bezos'
group by award_category, fiscal_year
order by award_category, fiscal_year;

-- Every transaction behind the tables (one row per USAspending transaction)
select * from subject_award_transactions
where subject_group = 'bezos'
order by action_date, award_id;

• Obligations are amounts agencies committed in the period, net of reductions; they are not contract values or payments.
• Classified awards are not in USAspending, so these totals leave out any classified work.
• Sales through resellers are recorded under the reseller's name, so AWS services bought through a reseller are not counted here.
• Defense Department actions are published with a delay of about 90 days, so fiscal 2026 totals may still grow.
• 'Not competed' is the awarding agency's own coding on each contract action.
• Prime awards only; subcontracts are not counted.
• Contract ceilings are potential maximums, often shared by several companies, and are not money awarded.

Context: these are federal prime-award obligation records matched to each company by its unique entity ID. They do not show contract values, payments, profits, subcontracts, classified work or sales through resellers, and they say nothing about why any award was made. The same 'coded not competed' measure is used for every company on this page.

Dates are not used to suggest cause: these are records, not a claim about why any money went anywhere.

• We asked Amazon for comment on Oct 21, 2026 and will add any response here.

• We asked Blue Origin for comment on Oct 21, 2026 and will add any response here.